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Guru Kate: Surefire ways to prevent muscle soreness
Illustration by Casey Kleeb Whether you’re reading this as a college-level athlete or a couch-potato level athlete, delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) has likely hit you at one point or another....
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Guru Kate: How are calories in food measured?
Illustration by Casey Kleeb In the past 100 years, the primary method of measuring calories has not changed course. The Atwater method uses classical knowledge about how food is metabolized via fats,...
View ArticleGuru Kate: What’s so healthy about garlic and onions?
Many naturopathic practitioners have supported the alternative remedy of garlic and onion supplementation. Some suggest that merely leaving sliced onion on the counter will keep sickness at bay. Even...
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Guru Kate: Which is a better breakfast: Eggs or cereal?
Illustration by Casey Kleeb Many factors influence whether eggs or cereal makes the better breakfast decision. How are the eggs prepared? What do you eat with the eggs? Are you eating Captain Crunch’s...
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Guru Kate: All About Vitamins
Photo graphic by Nick Foote Vitamin supplements are a nice way of covering all of your nutritional bases. You pop a pill every day, and regardless of what you eat, you figure that you can’t have...
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Guru Kate: What are the real health benefits of chocolate and at what point...
Illustration by Casey Kleeb Chocolate is the Valentine’s Day food mascot. The sugary, creamy snack has developed a reputation over the years of being chock full of antioxidants. However, naysayers have...
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Guru Kate: Why do people say that coconut oil is so good for you?
Coconut oil is a unique fat. It’s solid at room temperature, like butter, but has purported health benefits, like olive oil. Many doctors used to warn against consuming coconut oil because it looks...
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Guru Kate: Why do some dentists endorse certain chewing gums?
Illustration by Casey Kleeb Although it hasn’t aired in years, a Trident gum commercial was so iconic that it spurred many people to ask, “Why would four out of five dentists recommend a particular...
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Guru Kate: Nutritional differences between men and women
You’ve heard correctly! Women go through life stages and hormonal changes resulting in the need for more nutrients, namely iron and calcium. All the while, women need anywhere from 200-300 fewer...
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Guru Kate: ‘What are anti-inflammatory foods and how do they work in the...
Inflammation is your body’s natural response to injury. Noticing that something is awry in the complex system, the wound sends out messengers from the immune system to check the problem out and patch...
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Guru Kate: What are hiccups? Are there any scientifically proven cures?
Hiccups are nature’s reminder that no matter how intricate the human body is, it still has a switch that no one knows what it goes to. They’re involuntary spasms of the diaphragm, which is a big muscle...
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Guru Kate: How do I know if I have acid reflux?
The digestive system is truly magnificent. It is self containing, self regulating, and ensures that all nutrients get to where they need to go. In a perfect world, it is like a city’s traffic system....
View ArticleGuru Kate: Does brushing your teeth do more than prevent cavities?
Proper dental hygiene is both necessary for your social career and very necessary for the health of your teeth. Regardless of your stance in the fluorinated versus unfluorinated argument, the physical...
View ArticleGuru Kate: Staying active at a desk job
Media has been buzzing in the past year about America’s “sitting disease.” These articles cite studies that claim our society stays seated for far too long, and this is to blame for America’s national...
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